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Green Book (2018)

PG-13 11/16/2018 (US) Drama, History 2h 10m

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Inspired by a True Friendship

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Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Peter Farrelly

Director, Writer
Brian Hayes Currie

Writer
Nick Vallelonga

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Viggo Mortensen

Tony Lip
Mahershala Ali

Dr. Don Shirley
Linda Cardellini

Dolores
Sebastian Maniscalco

Johnny Venere
Dimiter D. Marinov

Oleg
P.J. Byrne

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Mike Hatton

George
Joe Cortese

Gio Loscudo
Maggie Nixon

Copa Coat Check Girl
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A review by Wuchak

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Written by Wuchak on March 29, 2020

A white streetwise bouncer and an articulate black pianist tour the Deep South in 1962

A tough, working class Italian New Yawker (Viggo Mortensen) is forced to take a gig driving a refined African-American concert pianist (Mahershala Ali) through the Midwest and Deep South in 1962. Linda Cardellini plays the wife of the Italian.

“Green Book” (2018) was inspired by the real-life story and written by the son of Tony Lip (Mortensen). Like all great dramas, it’s compelling from the get-go and the road movie approach provides an entertaining and revelatory string of episodes... read the rest.

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